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Taash Act 1 Conversations

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Conversation Old Elven Stuff

Rook finds Taash at the library in the Lighthouse.

Taash: Usually have to dodge traps and fight spiders to see this much old elven stuff. Talk to Isabela if you want to sell any of it. She’ll get you a good deal.

Origin dependent dialogue:

Rook: For gold and glory.

Taash: Right. You were one of us. How’d you end up here?

Dialogue options:
1 - I’m exploring, by necessity.

Rook: Isabela thought I would benefit from seeing the world a little bit.

Taash: You got kicked out?

Rook: I kept an artifact out of the wrong hands, but those hands have a lot of pull in Rivain. Isabela sent me with Varric until things cooled down.

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2 - Politics.

Rook: I upset the wrong nobles in Rivain.

Taash: Ugh. Those assholes.

Rook: That’s what I said when I kept one of them from running off with a dangerous artifact. Isabela sent me with Varric until things cooled down.

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3 - Job went bad.

Rook: Dangerous artifact. Light-fingered noble. Isabela needed me gone. Varric needed help.

Taash: Oof. Sorry.

Rook: Same thing just happened to you, right?

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Taash: Ugh. Politics. The Lords don’t take me on political jobs.

Rook: Lucky you.

Taash: Traps and dragons. That’s what I’m good with. Traps and dragons are simple.

Dialogue options:
5 - Investigate: Tell me about the traps.

Rook: What’s the most interesting trap you’ve run into?

Taash: Old elven armory. Had letters on tiles. Probably supposed to spell out the name of a god or something. Rook: Probably?

Taash: I don’t read elven. Found handholds in the ceiling and swung across.

Rook: That sounds more like a puzzle than a trap.

Taash: Ugh. Puzzles.

Dialogue options:
10 - I like puzzles.

Rook: But puzzles give you a chance to test your wits, to prove you’re smart enough to beat whoever designed it!

Taash: Ugh.

Rook: I ran into one while traveling with Varric. It had these three poles, with sets of different-sized rings on two of the poles…

Taash: And you had to move the rings over to the third pole? And the rings had to be sized right and crap?

Rook: Yes! You’ve seen it?

Taash: That thing is vashedan.

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11 - I hate random puzzles.

Rook: See, I like some puzzles, but not when they’re just thrown in.

Taash: Right?

Rook: I ran into one while traveling with Varric. It was one of those “who sits in which seat” things?

Taash: Ugh. Where the guy with an axe has to sit to the left of the guy who likes brandy?

Rook: Exactly! Who cares that much about seating arrangements? Why is that controlling the lock on an ancient treasure chest?

Taash: It’s vashedan. Just pick a chair!

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12 - I cheat at puzzles.

Rook: You’ve got the right idea, going across the ceiling. Varric and I ran into an old elven puzzle once while hunting for Solas. There were these talking statues.

Taash: Riddles?

Rook: One only lied, one only told the truth, I think?

Taash: Ugh. What’d you do?

Rook: Varric gave them an autographed copy of his book. Turns out he’s really popular in the Fade.

Taash: (Laughs) Nice.

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6 - Investigate: Why do the Lords need you?

Rook: We didn’t have a dragon hunter when I was with the Lords. Why do they care about dragons now?

Taash: Lots of great old crap ends up in dragon hoards.

Rook: Why do dragons care about gathering treasure? It’s not like they go to the market.

Taash: Dragons like metals and gems. Anything glittery catches their eye.

Rook: So they’re like really large magpies?

Taash: (Grunts indecisively) Kinda? And they live for centuries. Lots of time to gather a bunch of shiny crap. Plus all the gear carried by idiots who thought they could kill a dragon.

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7 - Affable: Ah, the good old days.

Rook: I miss the days of dodging traps and stealing treasure.

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8 - Sarcastic: It’s simpler, at least.

Rook: These days, everything is elven gods this and blight that. Give me a stolen idol in a trap-filled dungeon any day.

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9 - Stoic: And treasure.

Rook: Don’t forget the loot. Stolen treasure in your hand, traps snapping shut all around you…

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Taash: Hey. We’re not thieves. We don’t steal.

Rook: Bharv’s team literally stole the big prize sword from the Grand Tourney of Starkhaven.

Taash: Starkhaven is full of assholes. It doesn’t count as stealing from them. You don’t screw over anyone who can’t afford it.

Rook: If the Lords of Fortune ever get a coat of arms, we should print that on the bottom in Old Tevene.

Taash: My mother works with them. That’s how I met the Lords in the first place.

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14 - Investigate: What does Rivain think of us?

Rook: When I left, Rivain was trying to figure out whether to arrest us or ignore us. How do they feel these days?

Taash: They were angry for a while. Then the Antaam invaded.

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15 - Investigate: What does your mother do?

Rook: I don’t remember meeting your mother when I ran with the Lords. What does she do? Appraisals?

Taash: Yeah. She tells them how rare something is. How much it might be worth. Also tells them if they found something cultural.

Rook: Cultural?

Taash: You know. Important. Stuff you don’t want going to some rich noble’s collection. The Lords send that stuff back to the Qunari in Par Vollen. They pay the Lords a finder’s fee.

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19 - That’s generous.

Rook: Interesting. The Lords do all this out of the goodness of their hearts?

Taash: We do get paid.

Taash: Name another job where you get danger pay for killing giant spiders.

Rook: Right. For gold and glory.

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20 - There’s no corruption?

Rook: Just a finder’s fee?

Taash: Yep.

Rook: But the Lords at the top could be charging anything for these artifacts, and you wouldn’t know.

Taash: I know what happened to the last Lord who bled a contact. That’s enough.

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21 - It’s a good system

Rook: They’ve put a lot of thought into it. Probably more than I did when I collected relics.

Taash: Just thinking about the gold?

Rook: And the glory, too. Can’t forget the glory. Though if I defeat these gods, I’ll have cornered the market there.

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Taash: The Lords are good people. They helped my mother when she came here from Kont-aar. She got here with nothing but me and the clothes on her back. Only skill she had was Qunari history. The Lords gave her work.

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16 - Affable: Thanks for the talk.

Rook: We should do this again. Grab a drink, share our tallest tales…

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17 - Sarcastic: I’ll leave you with the gold.

Rook: All right. I guess I’ll just leave you here… a treasure hunter… with all the priceless artifacts.

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18 - Stoic: Rest up.

Rook: Get some rest. We’ll be in the thick of it soon enough.

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Taash: Hey. I was gonna go back to Rivain later. Got a thing to do for my mother. You can come along if you want.

Rook: Do I need to be ready for combat? Or traps?

Taash: Nah.

Rook: All right. Just let me know when.

Conversation Woomanhood

Rook finds Taash and Neve talking in the kitchen.

Taash: Why do you run around in fancy mage clothes?

Neve: Because I like them?

Taash: You’re barely even wearing a shirt!

Neve: You fight Antaam with a bare midriff.

Rook: Everything all right?

Neve: We’re fine. Just trading fashion tips.

Neve: So what I wear is a problem for you?

Taash: It’s not! It’s just… Why dress like that? Are you trying to make your mother happy?

Dialogue options:
1 - Your mother said something…

Rook: Is this about what your mother said on the beach?

Taash: No!

Neve: What’d she say?

Rook: Taash’s mother said that Taash acted more like a man than a woman.

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2 - Taash, leave Neve alone.

Rook: I don’t know what your problem is here, Taash, but you’re out of line.

Neve: Relax, Rook. I’m a big girl. Taash, you mentioned me trying to make my mother happy. What’s that have to do with how I dress?

Taash: It’s just something my mother said the other day. That I act more like a man than a woman.

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3 - Talk to us, Taash.

Rook: Taash, what’s going on? Something is clearly bothering you.

Neve: My bet’s on mothers and dresses.

Taash: It’s just something my mother said the other day. That I act more like a man than a woman.

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Neve: And you feel like you should wear dresses to make her happy.

Taash: (Scoffs) No. Can you imagine me in a dress? I’d look stupider than I— I’d look stupid.

Dialogue options:
5 - No, you wouldn’t.

Rook: You wouldn’t look stupid in a dress, if that’s what you wanted to wear.

Taash: I don’t want to wear a fucking dress!

Neve: Clear and to the point. So what do you want?

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6 - We can stop, if you want.

Rook: Taash, if you don’t want to talk about this…

Taash: No. It’s… It matters. And Neve? Sorry I was an asshole.

Neve: No harm done. Your mother didn’t just make you angry. Something she said got its hooks into you. Why?

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7 - It’s not about the dress.

Rook: This isn’t about the dress, is it?

Taash: No. It’s… I don’t know.

Taash: She always says stuff like that. About how I dress. How I act.

Neve: And…?

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8 - Non-Qunari: Qunari can wear dresses.

Rook: But Qunari wear dresses all the time. Your mother does.

Taash: I am not my mother.

Neve: Clear and to the point. But her words got under your skin. And it’s not just about clothes.

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9 - Qunari: Qunari have gender roles.

Rook: I wasn’t raised under the Qun, but our people believe some jobs are for men, and others are for women.

Taash: (Snorts) Yep.

Rook: You dress like a warrior. And for Qunari, warrior is a man’s job. Is that why your mother said what she said?

Taash: No. I mean… maybe. But it’s fine. She says stuff like that all the time.

Neve: And…?

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Taash: It feels… right. When she says I act more like a man. It feels right. Why does it feel right?

Neve: Taash, do you like being a woman?

Taash: *(Scoffs) *Nobody likes being a woman.

Neve: Ah.

Taash: This is stupid. Forget I said anything.

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11 - We’re here to help.

Rook: If you don’t want to talk about it anymore, we won’t. But whatever this is, this team is here for you.

Taash: I still don’t know what this is.

Neve: Some of my friends in Minrathous talk about not feeling comfortable in their own skin. As a man, as a woman…

Neve: I could see if they’d like to talk. Maybe what they say fits how you’re feeling.

Taash: Yeah. Okay.

Taash: And thanks. You do look really pretty.

Neve: Oh?

Taash: To look at. I’d smudge your makeup.

Neve: Thanks for letting me down gently.

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12 - I need you functional.

Rook: Forget it, or dig into it. Whatever you have to do. But if our dragon hunter isn’t at her best, people will die.

Taash: (Sighs) Yeah. I’ll figure out my crap. Whatever it is.

Neve: Some of my friends in Minrathous talk about not feeling comfortable in their own skin. As a man, as a woman…

Neve: I could see if they’d like to talk. Maybe what they say fits how you’re feeling.

Taash: Yeah. Okay.

Taash: And thanks. You do look really pretty.

Neve: Oh?

Taash: To look at. I’d smudge your makeup.

Neve: Thanks for letting me down gently.

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13 - You’re getting there.

Rook: It’s not stupid, Taash. What you’re saying is important. You can figure this out at your own pace, but you’re already talking about it, and that’s a good step.

Taash: But I don’t even know what it is.

Neve: Some of my friends in Minrathous talk about not feeling comfortable in their own skin. As a man, as a woman…

Neve: I could see if they’d like to talk. Maybe what they say fits how you’re feeling.

Taash: Yeah. Okay.

Taash: And thanks. You do look really pretty.

Neve: Oh?

Taash: To look at. I’d smudge your makeup.

Neve: Thanks for letting me down gently.

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14 - So it’s about womanhood.

Rook: If something about being a woman is hurting you, I don’t think it’s stupid at all.

Taash: But what does it mean?

Rook: It could be about your mother’s expectations, or about how it feels to be a woman and Qunari. Or maybe it’s being a woman, period.

Taash: How would knowing that help? It won’t change anything.

Neve: Some of my friends in Minrathous talk about not feeling comfortable in their own skin. As a man, as a woman…

Neve: I could see if they’d like to talk. Maybe what they say fits how you’re feeling.

Taash: Yeah. Okay.

Taash: And thanks. You do look really pretty.

Neve: Oh?

Taash: To look at. I’d smudge your makeup.

Neve: Thanks for letting me down gently.

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15 - Special: Being a woman shouldn’t hurt.

Rook: Hey, it’s not stupid. I do like being a woman, but if you don’t, maybe that’s something to think about.

Taash: But what does it mean?

Rook: It could be about your mother’s expectations, or about how it feels to be a woman and Qunari. Or maybe it’s being a woman, period.

Taash: How would knowing that help? It won’t change anything.

Neve: Some of my friends in Minrathous talk about not feeling comfortable in their own skin. As a man, as a woman…

Neve: I could see if they’d like to talk. Maybe what they say fits how you’re feeling.

Taash: Yeah. Okay.

Taash: And thanks. You do look really pretty.

Neve: Oh?

Taash: To look at. I’d smudge your makeup.

Neve: Thanks for letting me down gently.

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16 - Special: Yes. I felt the same way.

Rook: I used to tell myself things that sound like what you’re saying. I felt wrong in my own skin. I didn’t know why. I figured everyone felt like that, so I pushed it away, and tried not to think about it. Until one day I finally realized what was wrong.

Binary TransNon-Binary
Rook: I’d grown up being treated like a [man/woman], and I… hated that. Being a [man/woman] didn’t make me happy. Being a [man/woman] did.Rook: I’d grown up in this box the world made for me. This is what a man is. This is what a woman is. But I wasn’t a man, and I wasn’t a woman. I was me.

Taash: So what? You just changed?

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17 - Once I felt it, yes.

Rook: I asked a lot of questions to people willing to talk with me about it…

Binary TransNon-Binary
Rook: Then one night I closed my eyes and let myself imagine living my life as a [man/woman]. Being a [man/woman].Rook: Then one night I closed my eyes and let myself imagine living my life, not as a man or a woman, but as me. Being free as myself.

Rook: Something opened up in my chest, like I’d relaxed a muscle I’d clenched my whole life without realizing it. And after I finished crying, I started making plans. Because once I learned that I could feel that way about myself, I was never going back.

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18 - No. I struggled with it.

Rook: I didn’t “just” anything. It was hard. It was embarrassing. I had a lot of ugly thoughts about parts of myself I’d always been ashamed of. I’d packed it all down. I had to let it out, and feel everything I spent years trying not to feel. But it was better than spending my life hating what I saw in the mirror.

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19 - I was uncertain for a while.

Rook: No. It took a long time to get there. I was afraid to admit I might be wrong about something as simple as whether I was a man or a woman… So I did little things. I changed my hair. My clothes. I wasn’t deciding anything. Just trying it out. I followed things that felt right, and eventually what felt right was who I am now.

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Taash: And you’re saying I’m… like you?

Rook: One of the first things you told me was, “You don’t get to tell me who I am.”

Rook: Whether you’re like me or dealing with some other pain, well, only you can figure that out. Taash: Okay. I’ll try. And… thanks for telling me about… you.

Rook: Any time.

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